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but

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Butt \Butt\, But \But\, n. [F. but butt, aim (cf. butte knoll), or bout, OF. bot, end, extremity, fr. boter, buter, to push, butt, strike, F. bouter; of German origin; cf. OHG. b[=o]zan, akin to E. beat. See Beat , v. t.] A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
But or Bout is a gender-neutral Slavic surname that may refer to Serhiy But (born 1969), Ukrainian Olympic freestyle skier Veniamin But (born 1961), Russian rower Viktor Bout (born 1967), Russian arms dealer Vladimir But (born 1977), Russian footballer ...

Usage examples of but.

I saw that Aberrancy was not a fouling of the body, but merely a changing.

Mishani would never have believed it possible - not only that Lucia had been allowed to reach eight harvests of age in the first place, but also that the Empress was foolish enough to think the high families would allow an Aberrant to rule Saramyr.

Kaiku had always been stubborn and wilful, but to be an Aberrant was surely indefensible?

The Empress might have enough support among the nobles to keep a precarious hold on her throne, but she had made no overtures to the common folk, and they were solidly opposed to the idea of an Aberrant ruler.

In truth, she wondered that Tane did not suspect Asara of being an Aberrant, but it seemed that he would rather not know.

A volley of gunfire tore into the Aberrant creature and it squawked in fury, but it would not let go of its prize.

Tane and Asara were firing on the first Aberrant creature, trying to dissuade it from the panicking manxthwa, but it held fast.

It is another key discovery that the old seers made, but in their aberration they relegated it to oblivion until it was rescued by the new seers.

But the fateful decisions secretly made, the intrigues, the treachery, the motives and the aberrations which led up to them, the parts played by the principal actors behind the scenes, the extent of the terror they exercised and their technique of organizing it - all this and much more remained largely hidden from us until the secret German papers turned up.

I love thee, but I should be an untrue friend did I abet thee in thy lawlessness.

Hitler and Mussolini was dead, but a new form of it was condoned and abetted abroad by the United States government.

But the Americans and their abettors were not content with defensive law.

Then the witch with her abhominable science, began to conjure and to make her Ceremonies, to turne the heart of the Baker to his wife, but all was in vaine, wherefore considering on the one side that she could not bring her purpose to passe, and on the other side the losse of her gaine, she ran hastily to the Baker, threatning to send an evill spirit to kill him, by meane of her conjurations.

But I have bethought me, that, since I am growing old and past the age of getting children, one of you, my sons, must abide at home to cherish me and your mother, and to lead our carles in war if trouble falleth upon us.

For if so be it doth not, then may ye all abide at home, and eat of my meat, and drink of my cup, but little chided either for sloth or misdoing, even as it hath been aforetime.